Signing certs with loaded pem files

[timgurney-msm]

I am doing something like this:
signing_key = OpenSSL::X509::Certificate.new File.read "intermediate.pem"
plain_cert = CertificateAuthority::Certificate.new
plain_cert.subject.common_name = "mydomain.com"
plain_cert.serial_number.number = 4
plain_cert.key_material.generate_key
plain_cert.parent = signing_key
plain_cert.sign!

just to test the loading and pems to sign client certs. and i get the following error:

gems/certificate_authority-0.1.6/lib/certificate_authority/certificate.rb:58:in sign!': undefined methoddistinguished_name' for #OpenSSL::X509::Certificate:0x00000001801438 (NoMethodError)

Am I missing something?

The root and intermediate were built using the example code and saved to disk using to_pem

[robheittman]

Necro-ing this because I had the same question and ended up here first before reading the specs.

Can't use the OpenSSL::X509::Certificate directly here, we need a CertificateAuthority::Certificate, so something like

intermediate_certificate = CertificateAuthority::Certificate.from_x509_cert(File.read "intermediate.pem")
intermediate_certificate.key_material = CertificateAuthority::KeyMaterial.from_x509_key_pair(File.read "keypair.pem") # if we set a password on the key PEM, pass that as a second argument here
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plain_cert.parent = intermediate_certificate
plain_cert.sign!